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I don’t like taking pictures of people in public when I’m on vacation. It feels like I’m an anthropologist studying their habitat.

I made an exception on my recent visit to Istanbul. I gave this street musician a dollar, and he seemed happy to pose for the picture. Whatever the success of the image, it still feels like I molested him.

Cain and Abel were, according to the Old Testament, two sons of Adam and Eve.Cain is described as a crop farmer and his younger brother, Abel, as a shepherd. Cain was the first human born and Abel was the first human to die. Cain committed the first murder by killing his brother. Interpretations of Genesis have typically assumed that the motives were jealousy and anger. Jose Saramago offers a different story in his final work, Cain, stating that Cain killed Abel because he couldn’t kill God. Saramago’s Cain states: Our god, the creator of heaven and earth, is completely mad.